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My mother was crying as Aunt Summer held her, but again the consul was here and staring at us. Each made the room feel smaller, their scents filling the normally typical hospital smell in whiff's of Chantilly lace or Vanilla, even some old spice. Vic was up but still in my bed while Warren took a seat next to my bedside, the Commander sighed. "I thought it wise to get this over with so you both might recover and get on with your life, my little dove are you up to this," my Uncle coddled us, but not Will.

I shrug, "As I ever will be,"

I just lay back as BiBi's mother walked in with the destroyer with her. "Oh, hell no, that little snot is on the consul?" My eyes were wide as Warren gave me a withering look. "Still being mean to her, my god woman," his tone was deep and amused.

Her eyes landed on mine, "No but I am, and she is off school today and I do hate leaving her alone,"

I offered, "Leave her at McDonald's, in the ball pit," my mother slapped me as Aurora laughed. "I like you, Bexley," setting her daughter closer to Warren, she just cuddled up to my husband, going to yeet her. I just grasped Wiklow's figurine into my palm while staring at anyone but her.

Warren was going into detail for over an hour when eyes turned to me, he left things out of course. I stated, "Just read our journal's, I brought them back. Look it was harsh, but peaceful unlike here. I was finally happy there, no depression, no raging anxiety people were nice and not so greedy. Finally, we can't kill Kai," Vic was the single person who didn't give me a look, BiBi just kicked her tiny feet.

Warren was angry, so many emotions raging around me.

I snapped, "Everyone calm down, I can't deal with the overload of your emotions," Vic was on me, his arms around me his words whispered into my ear pushing his calming emotions to me. Warren his halted fast, his voice so dangerous. "Everyone calm down now, or I will escort your ass from this hospital via her window. I don't care who you're," his fingers touched my arm and my panic eased more and more.

Vic cut in, "Kai, cursed her, she is connected to him,"

BiBi spoke, "So is Warren-" my body reacted moving fast from the bed and covering her little mouth. I seethed, "SHUT IT, CHILD,"

Vic and Warren just cracked up, but she said enough that they all looked at us. "You hated Mr. Peace and now it looks like he would attempt to murder each of us in turn if we upset you. My darling what happened," my Auntie gave me a smirk as my eyes narrowed in her direction.

I talk but not giving real answers, "We just spent two years in the past together, everything changed for us during that time. Well changed for me, he already had the emotions and feelings. Look we did the dirty work, not one of you could have lived back then but we did, and we made it work. Our lines are safe and mixed, Jackie stayed and married Aria who is Magenta's great however many times back grandmother. I have been gone two years and twelve weeks right now in my head I am a damn adult," Magenta walked in right than with a coffee in hand, her smile bright, I noticed it right then she had minuscule changes, her eyes changed from an odd brown to more hazel with darker hues, her nose more like Jackie's, chin had a dimple now and a slightly bigger chest area, might be shorter but I couldn't tell for sure.

I glanced at him, "Do you notice it Warren," my eyes darting to her and he gave a nod. "Yes my first few days back, I saw her eyes have changed, her chin and she is a few inches shorter," sipping the sweet liquid.

But right now, everyone is so engrossed in the journal's, only small sighs or gasps are heard. My mother slammed her head on the table as BiBi laughed. "They're married,"

"No, only then were we. Here that shit ain't legal," my saving grace, but I knew I wanted to be with him and wanted to stay married but Kai was after him now. He was hurt and angry, but he says nothing just leaves with his mother behind him, right before she left she glanced at me and saw the pain I couldn't hide.

She was gone behind him, that little destroyer crawled into my bed. "I don't understand why you act this way. You love him, you belong together, is it the bad guy who makes you want to stay away. He can't die, but we can put him away like your father," my father?

I gave my mother a look, her face was so pale she looked ready to hit the floor herself. "Where is my father?" was under the impression he left us years ago but now it seemed I was lied to.

She finally gave in answering, "He is in high max, he killed, he was doing very bad things and I couldn't let that happen. I didn't want you hurt because he loved you so much if he loved anything it was you. We agreed to say he left so you didn't have to know what he had done," her tone was heartbreaking and made it so hard to even be mad at them both, but I was not to be coddled any longer.

"Fine. I'll deal with it. Anything else, are we getting our actual pictures in the hall or just the painting's?"

Uncle smiled, "Painting's, they're perfect. My dear, your marriage is still legal because we're hero's and BiBi said you're destined and only will it be sealed when you consummate your valid marriage," my head spun as Vic winced seeing my face.

He sounded numb, "She is married at sixteen, Peace, a great guy but is nearly nineteen. BiBi, are they meant to be?"

She just kicks her feet and gives a yes, Kai would kill him. "Kai will do everything in his power to kill Warren because we're married and I can't allow that. Yes, Kai loves me but it is obsession and power-hungry, I'm a battery," my mother looked grim as she held her sister's hand, the Commander and Jet stream both had the same expression.

Aurora spoke, "Mr. Masters does love you, he never meant to fall for you but he has and he will refuse to let you go. Love is not fickle for us," it wasn't, once I was in love with Warren my body reacted even when my brain is trying to stop it from happening.

One by one they leave until Magenta and Vic are the single ones here with me. I am resided in my new life, "Married now aye, he hot too," Magenta waggled her brows as my heart raced.

"Vic take her home, both of you see you tomorrow. Pretty sure they are releasing me than,"

If you run a long way, your muscles would need a rest to recover... and the same is true of the brain. Low mood is a simple request for rest and shelter from your emotional "muscle," you just "ran" a long way for the sake of others.

Summer comes fast, as the music turned up to full volume. The sky blazes blue and the sun is a celebration of yellow, free and bright. The trees rise to the occasion, donning their best verdant hues, and everywhere are the flowers, the scattered rainbow that they are. Warren and I had a single week left of school until summer break, so I never showed and was given an A+ in every class since I was still recovering, or so mom said.

Saturday, has me sitting under the umbrella at Dutch Bros. The shade bequeathed the grass a dappled hue, one that changed in the warm summer breeze. Together with the bright patches, it made a picture, the branching pattern that is life, ever stretching onward and upward. I just stared off when Jennifer, Layla, and Magenta finally have their drinks and take a shaded seat. Jennifer was always worried, "Still haven't seen Warren, Vic said he has though and Will too," her tone light and airy as she smiled.

I just stayed silent.

A fruity voice cut in, "May I sit with you," she was smiling when Layla offered Becca Faith the extra chair, all eyes focus on me as I removed my sunglasses to stare at her.

I asked, "You're lucky, cross me again and Kai will look like a saint,"

She nodded, "Crystal clear, and I know what I stood to lose and what I have found," Deke, she found Deke and that was a good find right there.

I wore his ring still, right now my eyes are on it when the hair on my neck stands on end, in a bad way I just stand and turn to see Kai watching us laughing. I brace my arm back pushing Becca Faith and Layla behind me as Magenta stood dead in front of Jennifer who paled further seeing my ex.

I just stood firm; he was going to have to go through me to get to any of them. "What do we ladies owe the misfortune of your company?" I asked as Jennifer was letting her fingers fly across the pad, Vic would be here soon. His temper was like TNT, once the sparks started to sizzle there was very little time to duck and cover. But right now he just smiled, "Getting a coffee, my love. Not here to fight there is time enough for that, I learned my lesson fast with two hurtful betrayals," his eyes on the shaking girl behind me, I just smiled at him.

Winking, "Jackie and Becca Faith finally got some taste, she runs in my husband's crew now and Jackie well we will never see him again," his eyes touch Mage who snarled and he chuckled.

The way he licked his lips was alluring, "You know you and I are connected, Bexley Babe. Don't ever think I will allow you to be happy with him, you are mine, you were mine first and always will be and you know it deep down. A stupid Hero law now I wonder if I could get it overturned because you and I connected first," I let anger win, my foot hit the edge of the table sending it sailing into his gut. He and the table slammed snapping the tree clear in half.

Snarling, "You cursed me, I will die before I give into you," but fear caught me, could he do as such.

He was up shaking in anger, I stepped back a vortex opening behind me, it would lead into my room. "Go now," Magenta just shoved the three girls in. "Shut it, they went through," best I had her as his friends are arriving.

His crew would attack like a mob, Magenta and I, we backed the other and we worked well together. She moved left and I sidestepped laying my fist into some new guy much of his old crew were killed. My body was agile as I flipped back landing behind the chair and sending it hurling at the girl who was now pinned down. I cocked my head and black tendrils shot out and aimed for Kai who dodged them, faster and faster.

His face mottled crimson, his eyes popped, his tree-trunk neck strained. His words were spat out with the ferocity and rapidity of machine gunfire. "You will fall in line, or the next time it will be me. I will not take you easy, I will make it hurt," Without wiping the spit from my ashen face I leaned closer, perfectly composed and uttered just three words, "I don't care." His fuse simmered and fizzed like a firework in a chill autumn breeze, then he exploded with unrestrained fury. His fist slammed into my face, and his body on mine the next thing I knew, he had slammed his lips to mine and nearly knocked all wind from my lungs.

I hardly had a moment to react before he pressed his tongue to the seam of my lips, I finally snapped back my body contorting, my elbows crashing down on his arms. His hold lessened and he went sailing back, I was unsteady as Magenta backed me once again. I could taste blood and saw red seeing my husband coming to but his hand was in Hilary's.

A tide of red and this time Magenta jumped to her left avoiding what was coming, I swung my arm back snatching up the table and it went flying passed Kai who was laughing now. The blue metal table caught him sending him and his new fling back, rage, I was filling with rage.

Rage builds like deep water currents. I storm his way Magenta was now back with me, "Calm, Bex," but nothing was going to calm me now, it started pouring rain and thunder cracked the ground. My fist nailing Kai in his nuts before I slugged him in passing, but now I stood like an inferno in front of my husband. I tore the ring off, "Expect papers, our marriage is fucking legal and I want fucking out," his face paled.

He was up, "Bexley, no. I was trying to piss you off," but he sees I was fighting, and the fact Kai was now unsteady on his feet his hands covering his groin.

Vic arrived late, he was at work by his clothes, he was facing me his brown eyes locked on mine. "Calm your shit, now. You could hurt others, calm. I am here and always will be but you need to calm, take deep breathes for me. Magenta, get her a smoke. Kai and Warren get the fuck away from her," he was dragging me away from them from anyone who I was in danger of hurting.

"We have to go, now," I knew the elder Heros are on the route so, I slammed my foot on the gas and blew through a few red lights with Vic on his bike next to me. I just head home and when I walked in Jennifer and Layla are cooking dinner and laughing, so I just shake the anger off and smile.

Jennifer made Vic so happy, Bandit and Mage, Will and Layla all so matched but here I sit at midnight. By midnight the darkness is almost absolute, only a smattering of luminous stars scatter the heavens. Even the moon has waned to almost nothing and I cannot see even my hand in front of my face. Streetlights dot the sidewalks as my friends are all crashing here, but I sit on the roof of my house just staring at the stars.

The starry night above was better than any software imitation. There were lighter patches, clusters of faint and bold light, the constellations altered according to the time of year. These were the same stars that greeted the ancients, the same one's Warren and I gazed at on long nights, the same ones that would be there in millions of years.

I nearly pissed myself hearing her tiny girly voice chime in, "Hello," the destroyer was on my roof.

I asked her, "Shouldn't you be tormenting your hamster, BiBi. Or perhaps sleeping like everyone else who isn't me," she just sits next to me, this child was going to give her mother a heart attack doing this stupid shit.

She was serene and it unnerved me to look at her for too long, "I couldn't sleep and knew you needed someone and I am someone," she was as close as she could get to me, I looked down at her a slight chuckle.

She was something alright, "You are going to put your mother into an early grave, little girl. I'm fine just something you will deal with when you grow up, men troubles, but hopefully not as hectic as mine," she was not horrible, but she was the one who sent me back in time.

"No thank you. Warren looks for you but only knows where your Aunt lives, are all men so cruel and stupid?"

Nodding my confirmation.

I sigh, "Well Kai loves me, and I know Warren does too, but I hate both. So, Beatrice who do I end up with, make my life just a tad easier if possible," she growled at me. "I don't like that name," her arms folded across her chest pouting.

I laughed, "Come on, time to go home and to bed," picking her small body up and jumping from the roof, she thought it was wild but it had to end as I tucked her into the passenger seat before I clicked her buckle.

'I'm nine not two,"

"Could have fooled me," I shut her door my feet on the wet cement as I slide into the driver's seat, I drove off heading down the lone road since at this time of night only rotten people were up causing trouble, or people going to work or getting off. She was staring at me, "Yes?" my question didn't shock her, and I doubted anything could.

"Warren, you end up with Warren. But Kai he doesn't make it very easy, I get flashes of him behind bars at times and others he is chasing you," that was not great news. "Can I change this?"

"If you want, life is of free will, but Warren is your equal and stupid," she was not lying as she pointed to Hawthorne lane, "Right," she ordered but this lead us into town my head just hit the seat. "Where you leading me too," not a question.

"I never had Dutch Bros, they are closing soon," like in ten minutes it was Saturday so they closed at one. But let me give this girl something good, pulling into the drive-through. "Don't spit in our drinks, I tip good, my normal and the destroyer will have a small Ninja frost, double blended with whip," she just entered it into the tablet as I scanned my debit and pulled forward.

"I like mint,"

Retorting, "That's good, now where do you live,"

I was going to murder her, "Across the street from Warren," I didn't know where that was either. "That is where," but her eyes are on the drink that is being handed through the window, childlike curiosity took her away.

I felt for her, with drinks in hand we drive off into the night when I asked her. "Do you ever get to just be a normal little girl?" her face looked sad.

"No, my mom tries though,"

That had to blow, it is hard being the odd girl out, "I'm sorry, that must suck but it is never too late to just have fun," my words seem louder since it was dark and the car was already silent.

"You can help me?"

I gave, "Sure," but I was already far from normal and didn't know how to be normal, but she just smiles and starts to devour her Ninja while I took a left onto Hammer drive, she pointed to the house on the left, a tall woman was standing outside with Willow Peace and her little bitch ass son when I pulled into the drive. "A welcoming party," lighting my smoke before picking her up and taking her from my Nova.

I nodded at Aurora, "BiBi showed up at my place, got her a drink before getting her ass home," her mother was already fussing over the girl as she took her into her arms. "Thank you, Bexley, she talks about you so often. Thank you so much for having girl time with her, but she is now grounded," the firmness in her tone was funny.

I was backing away trying to avoid another confrontation, "Bex, please talk to me,"

I asked, "BiBi, what did we learn about Peace?"

She didn't miss a beat, "That he done messed up, he a man child, stupid but hot," I didn't teach her the hot part, she thought he was hot. "BiBi, I can tell you have a small crush," she laughed and the elder women covered their smiles.

"But he sees only you,"

I walked away from them my voice trailing behind me, "And Hilary, Grace, Veronica, Jennifer, that random redhead, and the list goes on and on, see you later shorty," I knew he was following me but didn't want to cause a fuss with BiBi watching, she was a child.

His finger dip with just enough force to turn my body to face him, "I allowed it this one time, next your ass will end up in high max via the vortex. Look, Peace, you left before hearing everything you let your own emotions overtake you. Kai, he will not give up and you are his target as long as we are married. So Monday I am getting a divorce," I was firm on this but his face turned soft.

"You do love me, look I can take Kai you should have faith in me," I did more than he knew.

I say in a tired voice, "I do, but can your mother?" he understood now, she was a walking target but with his sudden distraction, I slide into my Nova a peeled out heading home once again.